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Affect and Gender in China’s Political Culture

A Collaborative Ethnography

Jinyan Zeng, Xibai Xu (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2027
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-47502-1 (ISBN)

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From political and social elites to netizens and activists, this innovative ethnographic study explores the role of affect and gender in shaping civil society in contemporary China. Affect and Gender in China’’s Political Culture demonstrates that the Chinese elite’s early education and experiences during the Cultural Revolution forged a misogynist world view that was fertile ground for strong-man politics and cults of personality that have been replicated in online and activist discourses. The book examines gendered attacks in online political discourse that characterise female participants as excessively sympathetic ‘holy mothers’ or man-hating ‘female boxers’, stereotypical, ‘saviours’, ‘sluts’ or ‘servants’ and female interests as secondary to abstract political causes. In its final chapters, the book shows a way beyond this demeaning culture by outlining an affective queer imaginary for community-building and a new queer methodology for study of Chinese political culture. In this way, the book goes beyond an institutional approach to to reveal the emotions, impulses and biases that drive political inclinations and behaviours and critiques the activist community for its deep-rooted patriarchal and authoritarian practices.

Jinyan Zeng is Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre of East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She is the author of Feminism and the Genesis of the Citizen Intelligentsia in China (2016). Her creative writings and documentary films on Chinese activism have been translated into multiple languages and received international awards. Xibai Xu is an independent researcher based in China.

1. China’s Political Culture through the Lens of Affect and Gender
2. Red Heirs from Beijing Compounds: Affect and Ideology of China’s Political Elites
3. ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Female Boxing’: Contesting Affect and Gender in Popular Online Discourses
4. Saviour, Servant, Slut, Bitch and Lunatic: Deconstructing Women's Image in Chinese Activism
5. The Feminist Politics of Affect: An Auto-ethnography of Violence and Ethics
6. The Affect of Visuality: Queering Community in the Sinosphere
7. Toward Feminist Ethnography: Queering Political Culture as a Method
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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2027
Reihe/Serie	Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-350-47502-5 / 1350475025
ISBN-13	978-1-350-47502-1 / 9781350475021
Zustand	Neuware